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Not too much to say here. I thought this was a strong debut. I think the biggest issue was the fact that we had two separate plots going on here that ended up confusing things. It would have been better to just stay on the main story-line (women and their son or daughter are being abducted) since there was a lot going on there. I also was left with a lot of questions once the villain was unmasked that I don't think were explained sufficiently. I did love the character of Charlie and her backstory was sad. I hope that in the later books in the series her family keeps popping up. 

Charlie is a DC with a loving mother and two younger sisters. She has heart and feels things deeply. Flint eventually reveals Charlie's backstory so stick with it. There are hints dropped here and there that something in Charlie's childhood broke her and at first you may end up confused until the full reveal. Along with that, Charlie is looking into the disappearance of an abused housewife. When the abusive husband ends up injuring Charlie when she goes to conduct a search this seems to start a snowball effect that leads to a lot of secrets being revealed. 

I think that other characters could have been developed a bit more besides Charlie, her mother, and her DI. At one point I laughed because her coworkers are described and it's brought up one of them is a lesbian and it goes into that and it was a very weird segue. 

I think that the murderer's POV was very creepy, a few scenes were a bit hard to read, but I thought Flint did well with them. I think if we had jumped from the murderer to just Charlie it would have been a stronger book. 

As I already said, there are multiple POVs in this one. We have Charlie, but also one of the missing women's husband, his defense attorney, the murderer, the missing women, and then someone else as well. There is a lot going on and often the flow between narratives don't work very well. It may have worked better if we didn't have the second plot line going on. It just made me feel like I was reading two separate stories instead of one cohesive one at times.

The writing was a bit tough to get into. I had a struggle with this one since we start off with so many POVs. It took until the 25 percent mark of the book for this to pick up enough for me to keep continuing with it. 

The ending was a shocker and we have Charlie going forward it seems with a possible love interest or friend. 

This had a rough start. It took til the 25 percent mark for things to keep moving. The author provides different third person's point of views, so you don't just get Charlotte (Charlie's) POV in this one. You get her, perpetrator and other characters. I found the book intriguing enough to finish and was curious about Charlie's backstory. Flint doesn't come right out and tell you things, it takes a while to get a full picture but am not complaining about it.